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On December 14 2012 14:16 gtrsrs wrote:Show nested quote +On December 14 2012 14:01 NeoIllusions wrote:On December 14 2012 13:59 Roffles wrote: You want absurd dps? Pick Kog. You want good initiation? Pick Ashe.
Of course there's more to it than just that. Nah, you covered it well, lolol. They're both fairly subpar in lane. :3 ashe has some really good lanes especially against cait who is quickly becoming fotm
Like what?
aphro (Cait) is beating Turtle (Ashe) pretty hard atm on stream.
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Well I had fun getting that Freelo with Khazix/Panth/Talon stacking black cleavers.
Also, name changes so cheap. Time for hoppin' on da bandwagon and going ChrispySCarra imo.
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Cait/Nunu loses to Ashe/Lulu, Its just that Janna is terrible in lane atm..
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On December 14 2012 14:19 NeoIllusions wrote:Show nested quote +On December 14 2012 14:16 gtrsrs wrote:On December 14 2012 14:01 NeoIllusions wrote:On December 14 2012 13:59 Roffles wrote: You want absurd dps? Pick Kog. You want good initiation? Pick Ashe.
Of course there's more to it than just that. Nah, you covered it well, lolol. They're both fairly subpar in lane. :3 ashe has some really good lanes especially against cait who is quickly becoming fotm Like what? aphro (Cait) is beating Turtle (Ashe) pretty hard atm on stream. Ashe's lane is only tolerable if you can shove your lane into enemy tower. If not her laning is terrible. If you look at top ADC's like Doublelift in 2v2 lanes, he wins a lot of his vayne lanes in 2v2s simply by pushing the lane out, even against bad lane matchups, and then have the support ward heavily/deep into river.
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On December 14 2012 14:12 NeoIllusions wrote: Since we're on the topic of ADCs,
TWITCH, so good to see so many AD players picking him up, from qtpie to Cop. Draven, still hasn't caught on. I don't have a clue why. His laning is absurb but I guess in late game team fights, he can get dove on hard. @_@
Sivir, don't know why she isn't a go to pick more often, not even for Double. With all these new AD items, she would be so redonk. Draven is a liability because he needs his axes for massive damage (in team fights it's almost impossible to catch them), a support that doesn't just hide in a bush, and has no jump
Sivir has bad range, high mana costs, and no jump, but still is a good pick
Twitch just explodes versus the right team
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Back on the matter of Statikk Shiv, there's the fact that it's not merely cheaper than PD, but if you get the avarice blade reasonably early - It's significantly cheaper. There's also the fact that it can critically hit which is something that some people might be overlooking. That damage is even effected by crit damage boosts like IE. Also it gets charges from all forms of movement, including gapclosers and flash.
I was wondering if Twitch ultimate causes it to charge ridiculously fast?
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I'm more than a bit pissed off that they nerfed Diana's entire kit. Yes, she needed her laning nerfed, but the nerf to the ult was rather uncalled for. Now she has the same problem Syndra has and the same problem Malz had. The kit doesn't flow well into the ult because of the range difference.
I'm going to continue to jungle her, but I'd imagine that the R range nerf is even going to make farming the jungle painfully annoying since you cannot jump nearly as far post 6.
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Caitlyn has always been the old school counter to ashe... I remember back when I started playing, the reason ashe fell off from being the most picked adc was because of cait fotm and her dominance as the #1 adc for a while
On December 14 2012 14:12 NeoIllusions wrote: Since we're on the topic of ADCs,
TWITCH, so good to see so many AD players picking him up, from qtpie to Cop. Draven, still hasn't caught on. I don't have a clue why. His laning is absurb but I guess in late game team fights, he can get dove on hard. @_@
Sivir, don't know why she isn't a go to pick more often, not even for Double. With all these new AD items, she would be so redonk.
What particular new AD items did you have in mind? I play a lot of Sivir, but didn't really find any of the new items for her that appealing. Even the qss upgrade, usually I prefer the double spell shield with banshee's or ga
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Yeah I'm not seeing the op sivir you're thinking of. Her passive has synergy with boots of furor, but she benefits more from her ad ratios and autos rather than arpen. If I were to play her I'd probably still be going BT/PD into LW.
And double just doesn't do well with sivir (at least in his mind)
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I can't wait to get back into playing Nidalee after the visual update. Crushing with max range spears is so much fun.
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On December 14 2012 14:12 NeoIllusions wrote: Since we're on the topic of ADCs,
TWITCH, so good to see so many AD players picking him up, from qtpie to Cop. Draven, still hasn't caught on. I don't have a clue why. His laning is absurb but I guess in late game team fights, he can get dove on hard. @_@
Sivir, don't know why she isn't a go to pick more often, not even for Double. With all these new AD items, she would be so redonk.
I especially dont understand the lack of sivir picks, her ult is still really good, and she still does an absurd amount of damage.
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Because she sucks vs Vayne and Cait the 2 top carries atm.
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On December 14 2012 15:02 Ziken wrote:Show nested quote +On December 14 2012 14:12 NeoIllusions wrote: Since we're on the topic of ADCs,
TWITCH, so good to see so many AD players picking him up, from qtpie to Cop. Draven, still hasn't caught on. I don't have a clue why. His laning is absurb but I guess in late game team fights, he can get dove on hard. @_@
Sivir, don't know why she isn't a go to pick more often, not even for Double. With all these new AD items, she would be so redonk. I especially dont understand the lack of sivir picks, her ult is still really good, and she still does an absurd amount of damage.
No escapes, really really low range, and she doesn't have any sort of niche that she's just incredibly good at.
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On December 14 2012 15:08 overt wrote:Show nested quote +On December 14 2012 15:02 Ziken wrote:On December 14 2012 14:12 NeoIllusions wrote: Since we're on the topic of ADCs,
TWITCH, so good to see so many AD players picking him up, from qtpie to Cop. Draven, still hasn't caught on. I don't have a clue why. His laning is absurb but I guess in late game team fights, he can get dove on hard. @_@
Sivir, don't know why she isn't a go to pick more often, not even for Double. With all these new AD items, she would be so redonk. I especially dont understand the lack of sivir picks, her ult is still really good, and she still does an absurd amount of damage. No escapes, really really low range, and she doesn't have any sort of niche that she's just incredibly good at.
I always felt she is sort of a counterpick to Graves, but Graves is rarely played now....
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Sivir still pushes faster than any other AD, and provides your team with a big mobility boost. It's just that you have to pick a team around her that can abuse those things. On their own they don't make her self-sufficient.
In solo queue, there are two major things that you really need to win--win lane, and teamfight. This is why Ezzy/Corki/Graves are still the kings of solo queue. When by and large solo queue teams are just going to be butting heads against each other after laning phase, an AD that has a powerful teamfight presence early and can snowball an advantage is going to be more likely to work out than one that has to farm to lategame to have a major influence on the game.
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On December 14 2012 15:15 Sufficiency wrote:Show nested quote +On December 14 2012 15:08 overt wrote:On December 14 2012 15:02 Ziken wrote:On December 14 2012 14:12 NeoIllusions wrote: Since we're on the topic of ADCs,
TWITCH, so good to see so many AD players picking him up, from qtpie to Cop. Draven, still hasn't caught on. I don't have a clue why. His laning is absurb but I guess in late game team fights, he can get dove on hard. @_@
Sivir, don't know why she isn't a go to pick more often, not even for Double. With all these new AD items, she would be so redonk. I especially dont understand the lack of sivir picks, her ult is still really good, and she still does an absurd amount of damage. No escapes, really really low range, and she doesn't have any sort of niche that she's just incredibly good at. I always felt she is sort of a counterpick to Graves, but Graves is rarely played now....
Yeah she has a favorable lane against Graves but it's not like Ez/Corki do bad against Graves. I think Caitlyn does fine against Graves too. And all three of them have better/safer team fighting than Sivir.
I'm not trying to come down on Sivir too hard. But to be fair, AD carry is probably my most played role and Sivir is by far my least favorite AD carry to play. I think she's really boring personally.
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On December 14 2012 15:05 Eppa! wrote: Because she sucks vs Vayne and Cait the 2 top carries atm.
Yes, vayne can tumble out of a boomerang, but Sivir gets close to vayne damage off of the auto w auto combo alone which does significantly more upfront burst and it is easy to disengage from the trade because of sivir's passive negating vayne's. If you do land boomerang, then you do so much more damage than vayne by such a large margin she cannot hope to trade with you. You put sivir with an aggressive support and they will beat a vayne lane pretty easily. It's a skill matchup, but most bot lanes are.
Cait is difficult to deal with, but some of sivir's mana problems are negated because she can just walk over a trap. In a forced fight, sivir does far more damage than cait does, so if you run an all-in lane with leona/taric/ali/zyra vs cait, I wouldn't say the the matchup is unmanagable.
I don't really think matchups are why sivir is unpopular, I'd point to her hard to hit, clunky and slow skill shot and her extremely poor auto attack animation as bigger reasions why people don't like her. But her late game and teamfight utility is incredible with her ult, and she kites well and has huge burst, can one shot minion waves, and split pushes like no one else. Even her lack of a dash isn't that big a problem, because spell shield damage negation is almost superior in a lot of cases. I can't see any real reason why she couldn't see more play other than pro players being fickle.
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sivir enjoyed some fotm after regionals, i think.
but then vayne became fotm after worlds.
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On December 14 2012 15:22 Vanka wrote:Show nested quote +On December 14 2012 15:05 Eppa! wrote: Because she sucks vs Vayne and Cait the 2 top carries atm. Yes, vayne can tumble out of a boomerang, but Sivir gets close to vayne damage off of the auto w auto combo alone which does significantly more upfront burst and it is easy to disengage from the trade because of sivir's passive negating vayne's. If you do land boomerang, then you do so much more damage than vayne by such a large margin she cannot hope to trade with you. You put sivir with an aggressive support and they will beat a vayne lane pretty easily. It's a skill matchup, but most bot lanes are. Cait is difficult to deal with, but some of sivir's mana problems are negated because she can just walk over a trap. In a forced fight, sivir does far more damage than cait does, so if you run an all-in lane with leona/taric/ali/zyra vs cait, I wouldn't say the the matchup is unmanagable. I don't really think matchups are why sivir is unpopular, I'd point to her hard to hit, clunky and slow skill shot and her extremely poor auto attack animation as bigger reasions why people don't like her. But her late game and teamfight utility is incredible with her ult, and she kites well and has huge burst, can one shot minion waves, and split pushes like no one else. Even her lack of a dash isn't that big a problem, because spell shield damage negation is almost superior in a lot of cases. I can't see any real reason why she couldn't see more play other than pro players being fickle.
Her AA really sucks. As a player who AD Carries only Ashe and Kog (mostly kog) I dont approve of sivir b/c of her aa.
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On December 14 2012 15:32 kainzero wrote: sivir enjoyed some fotm after regionals, i think.
but then vayne became fotm after worlds.
She got some fotm after her re-work but then they nerfed her ult and was immediately not played much anymore.
I'm sure if you build a team comp around her she'd be pretty strong. Her ult is definitely strong. But having 500 range is pretty horrendous.
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